Word: wining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard Square wine merchants said yesterday they will not increase their stock of Gallo wine despite an announcement Tuesday by Cesar Chavez that the United Farm Workers Union (UFW) has ended its boycott against Gallo wine, lettuce, and table grapes...
Some stores in Harvard Square have been selling Gallo wine for the past year and a half, including the Harvard Provision Company, where students protested and picketed against the store's sale of the wine...
...brought it into the age of abstract expressionism. His Grass Moon school has gone beyond the simple (but stunning) classical ikebana arrangements of a bent twig and a dewy blossom arrayed in a water vase or a bamboo tube. In containers that may be ceramic sculptures or Chinese wine kegs, Sofu will blend the blooms with shells, stones, iron, leaves, driftwood, dried grass, dead flowers or dyed feathers. Explaining his break with tradition, he once proclaimed: "We should always look forward to a fresh and vivid world and not become buried in retrospection...
...countries as West Germany and Switzerland, where the greenback's decline against local currency has been severe. In Switzerland the franc has risen 25% against the dollar in the past year. A tourist couple may well spend $45 for a not particularly lavish dinner with a bottle of wine, v. $36 a year ago-even though the price of the meal in Swiss francs has not changed. In West Germany, where the inflation rate has been running at about 4%, Americans exchanging their dollars for deutsche mark have suffered a 34.5% loss in purchasing power during the past...
...giants, have become old men despite our most imaginative efforts not to acknowledge that dismaying fact. Brando broods and thickens in the middle on his South Seas Elba, a character actor in search of characters he can knock off in a month's shooting time. Newman is good wine, aging nicely but often bottled strangely, so that it is hard to identify his essence. Redford is adorable, but when they enriched that handsome hunk of white bread, they somehow left out the mythic minerals. Nicholson is a wise guy, a kind of Bogart manqué, who has not yet touched...